Sigler, Scott - Sun Symbol 02 - Mount Fitz Roy by Sigler Scott

Author:Sigler, Scott [Sigler, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Empty Set Entertainment
Published: 2021-12-02T05:00:00+00:00

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11,012 feet below the surface

A THICK SOUND. Constant. Unwavering.

Bertha knew what it was. The memory of that sound chilled her, made it hard to speak. She held up a fist, telling the men behind her to stop.

“Power plant, maybe,” Mullet said. “For lights, like we saw in that cavern. An alien fucking power plant . If you’d have told me a month ago that I’d not only say that, but been totally serious about it, I’d have asked how much crack you were smoking.”

The familiar roar, distant yet echoing, a sound like she was standing near a metal culvert back home in New Jersey as spring rains made streams swell and churn and rush.

She turned to face Mullet. Behind him, Curveball, and further back, Worm.

“It’s a river,” she said.

Mullet’s face wrinkled. He looked at her like she had a dick growing out of her forehead.

“A river ? Underground?”

Even now this guy was being an ass. He’d probably come out of the womb that way.

“Of course there are underground rivers, Mullet,” Worm said. “But I didn’t expect to see one this far below ground.”

Did Worm know something about geology? The guy seemed to know something about everything.

“We saw one in Utah,” Bertha said. “Trust me.”

Mullet snorted. “Don’t even know you, lady. And I’m a damn far sight from trusting you.”

Bertha keyed her talk button. “Patrick, come in.”

Mullet rolled his eyes. “Can’t you just call him Ender like every- one else?”

She still wasn’t sure what that nickname meant. She wasn’t sure she wanted to know.

Patrick’s voice, crackling from distance: “This is Ender, go ahead.”

He was even calling himself by that name. Slipping back into old ways, maybe?

“I hear a river,” Bertha said.

“Any way around it?”

“Unknown at this time.”

Patrick: “Keep moving forward. The silverbugs at our rear don’t seem to have detected us, but they’re in random wandering mode. If we don’t keep moving they’ll see us in minutes.”

“Affirmative, moving out,” Bertha said.

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